Christmas morning was a beautiful sunny day in Musoma as you can see from Tessa's picture. After opening all the presents, she got her new dress on, grabbed her new beach bucket and headed out to do some properly-attired gardening. I got a leather framed mirror from my loving husband (see photo). He got a new shoe shelf made just in time by our local carpenter. Jack's favorite present was all the wrapping paper for chewing. Tessa's happy with toys galore including a trike, a backpack on wheels, and tons of books.
Jack's rash went away on Monday so by Christmas he was back to being Happy Jack instead of Cranky Clingy Monster Boy. We're very glad to have him in good health now that the bizarre virus is gone.
The big meal of the day was an amazing BBQ with 3 other families followed by a birthday cake for Jesus and my pecan pie with real ice cream! Then we played a Scandinavian lawn game where you throw short, heavy wood rods at blocks - fun for the whole family (when else do we encourage our kids to throw sticks around?). We had a great warm Christmas this year with thoughts of all you in the snow.
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all I could think when I saw the pic of Tessa in her dress was "Tessa's mommy is going to have to work a lot harder to get dirt out of that dress than here in America!" I hope she didn't get it too dirty (but as a kid, what's the fun if you can't get dirty, right?) :o)
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